[Sportsandrec] Oh! My Heart!

[Cindy Ray]

The heart rate monitor is a round thing on the back side of the watch. And
by the way, for some reason it just quit as if the battery had gone dead on
the watch earlier this evening. Some of the previous phones to 7 do that.
Well, I plugged it in and it was at 98 percent, and now the heart rate
monitor is working on it. What? I suspect each has its problems.

Cindy Lou Ray


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Hmmm. That was one of my hesitations in purchasing an Apple Watch, and why I
bought the Fit Bit. A lot of people I know have had one or more problems
with the Apple Watch, where the whole thing works just fine, except for
insert name of one single feature). That made me worry about accuracy in
fitness tracking. A friend recently said "Well, my heart rate tracking
function just went out the window, but it still does all of the other cool
things like letting me see texts and check the time, and..." I replied
"Yeah, and? That's what I have an iPhone for. I'd rather save the money and
just pull out my iPhone to check those things and have an accurate reliable
fitness tracker." Although I do have to say that one really inaccurate thing
with the Fit Bit is the stupid floor counting feature. It keeps giving me
hundreds of floors climbed. The rep. on the phone said that this will not
skew my calorie burn count since that is based on heart rate, thank god, but
it still is annoying. I just canceled my floors climbed per day goal and I
just focus on calorie burn, mileage, sleep quality, etc. Riding on the
bouncy para-transit bus seems to be part of the problem, but it would
sometimes give me 20 or 30 floors worth of credit when I was walking around
my house or walking on the treed-mill at the gym. Very annoying. I guess all
of the fitness trackers have problems of one kind or another. As to cleaning
it, I would check the manual and see what it says. I clean my Fit Bit by
covering the hole where the charging cord goes very firmly with my finger,
and very briefly running the device under warm running water, running at a
slow speed, with a tiny bit of hand soap. That does well. Does anyone know
if the heart rate tracking on the Apple Watch is the same as on the Fit Bit?
I know that the Fit Bit uses LED lights and that somehow sees color changes
in the skin based on blood flow or something like that. Also, someone asked
me this in a social work class so I thought I would ask it here. How well
does this work on people of color? We were talking about how facial
recognition software and technologies like the Wii sometimes have trouble
seeing people of color and if the changes in blood flow are detected by
changes in how light reflects off of the skin, could this be a problem for
someone with darker skin? Anyway, ramble over. Have a great day, all.

Heather Bird
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Cindy Ray via SportsandRec
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 9:38 PM
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Cc: Cindy Ray
Subject: [Sportsandrec] Oh! My Heart!

I have a second generation watch from Apple. I have had a little trouble
with this before, but now my heart rate monitor never works anymore. When it
doesn't, it also doesn't give one credit for exercise. I wonder if it needs
cleaned, but I don't know what the best thing is to clean it with. If it
doesn't start working again soon, it will have to pay a visit to the Apple
Store.

 

Thanks, if anyone can help.

Cindy

 

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